Paper Mario: Sticker star will be available in Australia and New Zealand on the 8th of December - you can find our hands-on impressions of the game here. This is a day after Europe and almost a whole month after North America.

Released a whole two days before Paper Mario is the new Nintendo 3DS XL White, which will come with Mario Kart 7 pre-installed directly on the unit. This comes in line with the recently announced bundle in Europe, however, no news on the Pikachu 3DS XL, unfortunately.

Also, we now know that Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate will ship in Australia before March 2013, and Fallblox is definitely coming out in the next couple of months.

With the Wii U coming out in Australia on the 30th of November, it looks like Nintendo is giving Australians plenty of reasons to spend some serious dollars. What will you be picking up this holiday season?

Monster Hunter BEFORE March? As in, by the end of February?Or just poor wording most likely meaning during March?Good to have a solid date for Paper Mario, but that's what I was expecting anyway... already paid for my copy.

Oh, it actually says BY March 2013, but that's basically the same thing.It's been the wording that they've been using this whole time, so it'd be nice to have more of a clarification if we should be expecting it during March, or likely a bit earlier.

@ChunkyDroid At the Nintendo Experience, their hopes are that they'll get demo systems in but there's a good chance they won't be able to before launch from what I've heard.If not then oh well, I'll have mine soon enough.

@BenAV: the PR director told me himself he wanted to get as many Wii U's into consumer hands as possible to allow people to understand that it's completely different to the Wii. He didn't elaborate, it could be through their Connection Tour, but I heard rumors that they will be bringing out Wii U stands to EB and JB HiFis throughout the country, only time will tell, but it will have to happen soon.